[NSRCA-discussion] More flexibility in class selection?

[J N Hiller]

I think we are all missing one possible reason some drop out. Some of us are
not up to some of the non k-factored difficulty being included in new
schedule and once committed to a class your stuck. Additional resources such
as time, equipment, coaching, motivation etc. must be mustered. At times it
seams more like work than fun.
Jim Hiller

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Anthony Romano
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Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] More flexibility in class selection?


A number have made comments about changes in priorities/practice time. Would
more flexibillity help? Would allowing participants the opportunity to move
up or down easily help retain pilots? Is that number signficant enough to
care? Kind of like Earls idea of maintaining a rating. IMHO you don't want
to make pilots feel over there heads because life got in the way of toy
airplanes.

Anthony



>From: "Lance Van Nostrand" <patterndude at tx.rr.com>
>Reply-To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Advancement: let's wrap it up
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:59:27 -0500
>
>http://www.modelaircraft.org/PDF-files/333.pdf
>
>Here's the rules proposal form.  If we can get one or three people to fill
>it in and post it for review here maybe this discussion will result in
>something.
>
>Here's a summary of what I think I've read (beware of severe summarizing):
>Advancement rules based on hard numbers (like 100 points) are wrong because
>some people go to more contests or some districts have more pilots.  A
>system based on percentages would be better.  We've heard a comparison to a
>national average (need an implementable procedure to accurately compute
>this), force up of the district champs, and accumulating the raw scores for
>the year into averages that can be compared.
>
>We've also heard of simply tracking and publishing points and letting
>heckling take care of the rest (really need a 3 or 4 year window on this to
>allow one to level off before masters).  Note: this was the way it was 4
>years ago, but that was before every district could post points on their
>website.  It didn't work then.
>
>Several recommendations to increase the points above 100, but this is
>really just an adjustment for the size of the district so if this can be
>modified into a way to calculate an advancement number by district, maybe
>it could work.
>
>--Lance


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